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What's the dirt on Waterfox? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago by unicornBro@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm aware that it used to be owned by an ad company System1. But I found this post by the founder where he said that it's now an independent project.

https://www.waterfox.net/blog/a-new-chapter-for-waterfox/

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[–] hotwarioinyourarea@vegantheoryclub.org 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wasn't the whole reason to use Waterfox because Firefox didn't support 64x at the time? It supports it now, so why would you still use Waterfox?

[–] stardustsystem@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

It got a big boost when Mozilla updated their ToS a couple months ago to say they could use your browser data to train their AI.

Well, it's not that they said they would, it's that they updated their terms so that they could if they wanted to. For some (myself included) that was enough.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Waterfox try to remove some blobs of Firefox out of the box, so it's better for the normal user

[–] sunth1ef@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I have found that Waterfox is slightly, slightly faster on both Windows and Android and am loving it so far.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Waterfox try to remove some blobs of Firefox out of the box, so it’s better for the normal user

How is removing blobs better for the normal user?

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Because it makes a healthier base to work with or to simply use it without caring

Increasing privacy (and sometimes security)